From caeaee21bbad5b31b00bb44eaf56d5dc6ff25eda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Markiewicz Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 05:32:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add Appendix H: Governance amendment procedure (#346) * Add Appendix H: Governance amendment procedure This addition was adopted by the BIDS community in the 2023 election. * Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Stefan Appelhoff --------- Co-authored-by: Stefan Appelhoff --- _pages/governance.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/_pages/governance.md b/_pages/governance.md index ba1d7558..5857f137 100644 --- a/_pages/governance.md +++ b/_pages/governance.md @@ -503,3 +503,15 @@ and from other open-source governance documents including: Anonymous data from BIDS elections is stored in a dedicated repository on GitHub: [https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-elections](https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-elections){:target="_blank"} + +### H. Governance amendment procedure + +A group of BIDS contributors may at any time form a [working +group](#other-workinginterest-groups) to propose amendments to the governance. +These amendments will be first reviewed by the Steering Group before being +submitted to a community review. +At the end of the community review each amendment is submitted to a vote of BIDS +contributors. +The voting procedure is similar to the one described for the election of +Steering Group members in [Appendix B](#b-voting-procedure). +Amendments are accepted if they gather more than two-thirds of the expressed votes.